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Obama will make a statement to reporters at 1:30 p.m. in the briefing room. AP PhotoClose

President Obama will speak to reporters about Hosni Mubarak stepping down as the president of Egypt, the White House says.

Obama was going to make a statement to reporters at 1:30 p.m. in the briefing room just before Robert Gibbs began his final briefing as press secretary, but the White House later said the location and time had changed. And the statement was made pooled press, not for all reporters. The White House didn't say whether Obama would take questions.

Obama was told of Mubarak's decision during an Oval Office meeting, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in an e-mail to reporters. "He then watched TV coverage of the scene in Cairo for several minutes in the outer Oval," Vietor said.